South Central Power Company

About South Central Power Company

South Central Power Company is an electric cooperative. The largest county served by South Central Power Company is Franklin County, but the company also provides electricity in 21 counties in Ohio. At the time of the most recent government reports, the company listed a total of 151,654 electricity customers. This total is made up of 90.89% residential customer accounts, 8.21% commercial customer accounts and 0.89% industrial customers. On average, South Central Power Company bills their consumers a residential electricity price of 15.07 cents per kilowatt hour. Thankfully, this is 9.29% lower than the state's average price of 16.62 cents. They sold 2,609,342 megawatt hours in 2023 by way of traditional retail accounts. During the same timeframe, South Central Power Company procured 2,776,764 megawatt hours by way of wholesale channels. The total revenue for South Central Power Company for 2023 from electricity sales was $352,016,300, with 94.44% coming from retail sales to end users and 1.64% from sales to the wholesale electricity market.

The nationwide average monthly residential electric bill is $140.1, while the South Central Power Company average is 19.32% higher at $167.16 per month. South Central Power Company is the 2427th ranked company in the United States for average monthly bill total. The electricity grid owned by the provider experiences 1.85 outages per customer per year, with outages lasting an average of 259.13 minutes. The US average for other providers is 1.44 outages per customer and 123.49 minutes each outage. Electricity production is not handled in house at the company, as they purchase electricity at wholesale rates from other companies and then resell to their consumers.